Dear All,
As part of the IEEE Signal Proceesing Society distinguished lecturers  
series, Prof. Venu Veeravalli will be giving three lecture in Egypt.

He will be giving a lecture at NU in B2 auditorium at 11 am on Tuesday  
Dec. 21st

The abstract follows, and also details of his other talks in Egypt

Understanding and Managing Interference in
Wireless Networks
ABSTRACT: The understanding of point-to-point wireless communications  
channels with fading and
receiver thermal noise is mature. Recent advances, particularly in the  
area of multi-antenna
communications, have led to significant increases in the capacity and  
reliability of point-to-point links.
However, modern wireless networks are limited by interference from  
other links. While the information
theory for interference networks is still in its infancy, several  
techniques are being explored in the
research community for managing interference, while maintaining high  
spectral spatial reuse efficiencies
in these networks. These techniques include spatial user separation,  
interference cancellation, user
cooperation and relaying, dynamic spectrum access, and interference  
alignment. The first half of this talk
will be an overview of these techniques. In the second half of this  
talk, we will discuss some of our recent
results towards an understanding of the information-theoretic capacity  
of interference networks. We first
discuss a partial solution to the capacity of the two-user  
interference channel in the weak interference
regime, a problem that has been open for more than thirty years. We  
also discuss new techniques for
exploiting partial transmitter cooperation in interference channels in  
optimal ways.

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